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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1869; 1870]

lSr»H-70.] DOCL'MEXT No. 5. 11
TlRNl'IKES.
Tho Marion and Asheville Pike has three branches, one via
Bakersville to Asheville is now being surveyed and located,
that from Bakersville to Jefferson has been surveyed and
advei'tised for contract; tliat from Patterson's Factory to
"Hickory "or " Icard's " Station is being surveyed and lo-cated;
that from North River to Adam's Creek is nnder con-tract,
to be completed by April 1st, 1S70. The sum total of
•contract being $80 less than the sum appropriated by your
•honorable body, vi;^ : $4,920.
POWERS ANI» Dl TIE>-.
It is to be deeply regretted that the act delining the powers
•and duties of the Superintendent of Public Works had not
been so clear and specific as to preclude any possibility of a
conflict of authority between the Superintendent and tJiose in
whom former laws vested the authority, consolidated and
vested in tlie Superintendent of Public Works by the act of
April 12, 1809.
The oi)posing interests and influence brought to bear against
liiim during the past year under adverse claim of authority,
.has been of such a nature as to cripple his influence, and make
'liis authority generally disrespected and disregarded with im-ipunity,
and most especially in that part of his duties which
'relate to the representation of the State's interests in her Eail
Eoads. It would seem that the letter of the law was suflS-
•ciently distinct and clear upon this subject to satisfy any fair
-mind as to its intention ; but that the Directors of a large ma-
>rity of the Ptail Roads in the State, in which the State has
an interest, have taken ofiice by the suffrage of the State,
•other than by the vote of the Superintendent, is palpable evi-
"dence of a conflict which should not continue.
If tho authority to cast the vote of the State, at these elec-

lSr»H-70.] DOCL'MEXT No. 5. 11
TlRNl'IKES.
Tho Marion and Asheville Pike has three branches, one via
Bakersville to Asheville is now being surveyed and located,
that from Bakersville to Jefferson has been surveyed and
advei'tised for contract; tliat from Patterson's Factory to
"Hickory "or " Icard's " Station is being surveyed and lo-cated;
that from North River to Adam's Creek is nnder con-tract,
to be completed by April 1st, 1S70. The sum total of
•contract being $80 less than the sum appropriated by your
•honorable body, vi;^ : $4,920.
POWERS ANI» Dl TIE>-.
It is to be deeply regretted that the act delining the powers
•and duties of the Superintendent of Public Works had not
been so clear and specific as to preclude any possibility of a
conflict of authority between the Superintendent and tJiose in
whom former laws vested the authority, consolidated and
vested in tlie Superintendent of Public Works by the act of
April 12, 1809.
The oi)posing interests and influence brought to bear against
liiim during the past year under adverse claim of authority,
.has been of such a nature as to cripple his influence, and make
'liis authority generally disrespected and disregarded with im-ipunity,
and most especially in that part of his duties which
'relate to the representation of the State's interests in her Eail
Eoads. It would seem that the letter of the law was suflS-
•ciently distinct and clear upon this subject to satisfy any fair
-mind as to its intention ; but that the Directors of a large ma-
>rity of the Ptail Roads in the State, in which the State has
an interest, have taken ofiice by the suffrage of the State,
•other than by the vote of the Superintendent, is palpable evi-
"dence of a conflict which should not continue.
If tho authority to cast the vote of the State, at these elec-